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Originally Posted by Analog
It's funny that in this thread, you're asserting that a school- an institution of learning- is supposed to (for some unknown reason) support and actively engage in perpetuating a mythology... that somehow the children need to be told that this mythology is real, and telling them the truth is bad, and makes you a bad person...
But in this thread... Court rules against Intelligent Design in Dover, PA...
You're all laughing at the idiocy of a group of people trying to get support for the teaching and perpetuation of another mythology (intelligent design) to children.
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I was going to say the same thing. How would you all feel were your schools to teach that Jesus is the one and only Lord God and Savior, and if you don't repent you would burn in hell? You'd be a little pissed, right? So instead you selectively choose the lies you want your children to hear?
I don't disagree with Santa on principle. I disagree with the hypocrisy of saying that telling the truth about him is a despicable act. Calling the teacher a "bitch" because she was making an effort to, you know,
teach.
Furthermore, if you haven't figured out by the time you're six that Santa isn't real, then maybe you deserve to cry a little when you find out. Not a single part of the myth holds up to rational thought. Or is it that we don't want our children to think at all? Is that what the outcry is about? That the teacher is requiring thought from children we think are too young to do so?
Once again: I think Santa is a harmless myth. The myth itself is not the problem. But the idea that we need to perpetuate it as reality is what bothers me. I know people who still try to convince their teenaged and adult children that Santa is real. (Coincidentally - or perhaps not - they're all Catholic. Huh.) They're denying that their children have the ability to think rationally. They're trying to force feed them ideas, rather than helping them become adults.
That is the problem.